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Claiming their writings are intended to help homosexuals get "the help they need" is not to me demonstrative of the "mutual understanding" President Neil L. Rudenstine calls for in his letter. It is, rather, a self-indulgent justification of an entirely unnecessary and unsolicited probe into the most intimate aspect of a specific group of individuals' lives. Who appointed Landry and his fellow council members the University's sex therapists? Who is next in line for Peninsula's unsolicited "help...
Reagan's is a grand stage with spectacular vistas and sunsets. There will be 55 million documents for researchers who probe his eight years. For as long as he can, Reagan will come around to tell students what he tried to do when he gave up acting for politics. When all is over, he and Nancy will be buried in a stone vault that looks west to the ocean...
While data bases are an almost hidden threat to privacy, American workers are also finding themselves up against more visible measures to probe them and keep them under watch. When Sibi Soroka interviewed for a job as a security guard in April 1989 at a Target store in Pleasanton, Calif., he was asked to take a three-hour written psychological test. The interviewer told him that it would assess Soroka's ideas about the world of work. Soroka was stunned to discover that many of the true-false questions on the test centered on sex, religion and political beliefs...
...ploy backfired, dragging the White House into the controversy for the first time. It also raised fresh questions about the Justice Department's plodding investigation of B.C.C.I.'s U.S. affairs. Congressman Charles Schumer, chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice, promptly called for a formal probe of the Adham-Rogers connection. Both the White House and the Justice Department last week formally cleared Rogers of any ethics-law violations. Still, Schumer persisted in his calls for additional inquiries, in part because he says he believes that the White House may be far more involved in monitoring...
...ordered the audit last spring after allegations in Congress that Stanford overbilled the government $200 million. Harvard Medical School is the target of a related probe by the U.S. General Accounting Office...